hella cool optical illusion

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:02 am

http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidA ... index.html

Post by **Bdw3** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:10 am

Holy crap. :icon28:

That is freaking awesome. :icon26: :icon14:

Post by **-SKID-** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:10 am

Thats crazy. I love things like this.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 6:19 am

there are more of them on that page. Worth exploring.

Post by **seremtan** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:57 am

lol, nice. Reminds me of my psych work at uni.

Post by **urgrund777** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 9:06 am

is there a scientific explanation? be interesting to read - like, why the brain is "ignoring" the purple data that your eye is nonetheless recieveing

Post by **Zyte -_-** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:09 am

Very nice find.

Know this one for years but always amazes me.

Post by **SOAPboy** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 10:56 am

Bdw3 wrote:Holy crap. :icon28:

That is freaking awesome. :icon26: :icon14:

Wow.. O_O!!

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:09 am

thats pretty cool

also, when you suddenly click it away, youll still see some of the green dots around :icon14:

Post by **MKJ** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 11:10 am

Zyte -_- wrote:Very nice find.

Know this one for years but always amazes me.

those dont do anything for me, cept the first. how odd

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:31 pm

WTF!? I didn't even have to stare at it. As soon as I opened the page I saw a green dot moving around the circle and when I look away I could see an entire ring of green dots.

Post by **Deji** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:40 pm

bitWISE wrote:WTF!? I didn't even have to stare at it. As soon as I opened the page I saw a green dot moving around the circle and when I look away I could see an entire ring of green dots.

Colour blind?

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:50 pm

Deji wrote:
bitWISE wrote:WTF!? I didn't even have to stare at it. As soon as I opened the page I saw a green dot moving around the circle and when I look away I could see an entire ring of green dots.
Colour blind?

Maybe my inner eye is so strong it owned the hell out of that page...

Post by **werldhed** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 3:59 pm

urgrund777 wrote:is there a scientific explanation? be interesting to read - like, why the brain is "ignoring" the purple data that your eye is nonetheless recieveing

It's been a while since I learned about it, but it has something to do with how quickly cones can "reset" themselves after being subjected to intense light. The cones become "fatigued" and are unable to reset themselves quickly enough to respond to the next dot. IIRC, it has to do with the red dot being replaced with white (if you watch carefully, when a dot disappears, it becomes brighter than the gray background). I think this has to do with rods and cones interacting, and how rods can reset themselves quicker than cones. The same would not happen if the rods aren't stimulated at the same time (by fading the red dots to black, for example).

Post by **PhoeniX** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:00 pm

I did the same as you, Bitwise

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 4:15 pm

Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

I guess our eyes are just lazy fucks.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:15 pm

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

I guess our eyes are just lazy fucks.

I'm not sure there actualy IS a green dot to focus on there bitwise.

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:18 pm

Kracus wrote:
bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

I guess our eyes are just lazy fucks.
I'm not sure there actualy IS a green dot to focus on there bitwise.

I know that...read my posts a little closer

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:22 pm

bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot

I'm not english but I'm pretty sure I'm reading that right.

Post by **bitWISE** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 7:26 pm

Kracus wrote:
bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot
I'm not english but I'm pretty sure I'm reading that right.

Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

As I stated in my first post, as soon as I look at the page I see a green dot looping around the circle. Pho appears to have the same problem. It wasn't until I read the description and then did what I described above that I could actually tell there wasn't anything there. And I could still barely tell it wasn't there.

Post by **Transient** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:01 pm

[xeno]Julios wrote:http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/col_rapidA ... index.html

Trippy.

This one hurts to look at after a while: http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/mot_rotsnake/index.html

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:10 pm

bitWISE wrote:
Kracus wrote:
bitWISE wrote:Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot
I'm not english but I'm pretty sure I'm reading that right.
Pho, if you focus directly on the green dot and then follow it around the circle you should be able to see that there actually isn't anything there.

As I stated in my first post, as soon as I look at the page I see a green dot looping around the circle. Pho appears to have the same problem. It wasn't until I read the description and then did what I described above that I could actually tell there wasn't anything there. And I could still barely tell it wasn't there.

Right...

Let me explain something to you. If something isn't there... you can't focus on it k? don't matter how hard you try.

Post by **Transient** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:19 pm

Don't be pedantic. You know what he meant.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:27 pm

Well the reason teh circles are dissapearing is because your eye leaves a reverse colour imprint of the circle on your eye causing the green circle which isn't there it's just an imprint on the back of your eye in reverse colour.

So you A: can't focus on it and B can't possibly open a page and instantly see green dots you know?

Post by **Transient** » Tue Jun 07, 2005 8:35 pm

Well I knew what he was trying to say. You're just stupid.

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